CVE-2005-2766 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2005-2766?

CVE-2005-2766 is a low-severity vulnerability in Symantec Norton Antivirus, published on 2 Sep 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 9.0.1.x and 9.0.4.x, and possibly other versions, when obtaining updates from an internal LiveUpdate server, stores sensitive information in cleartext in the Log.Liveupdate log file, which allows attackers to obtain the username and password to the internal LiveUpdate server.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-2766?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Symantec Norton Antivirus.

How do I fix CVE-2005-2766?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-2766 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2005-2766 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-2766 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Symantec Norton Antivirus

• CVE-2005-2017 Privilege escalation in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2004-0487 Other in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2006-3456 Code injection in n/a High 8.5
• CVE-2002-2206 Denial of service in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2002-1774 Security feature bypass in n/a High 7.5

All Symantec Norton Antivirus vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-w95w-rvqq-jf9m.